Unknown Newspaper-probably Gatesville 16 August 1954
Mrs. F.P.McNeely Claimed by Death; Rites in Ft. Worth. Mrs. Cleo
McNeely, 92, a resident of Brownwood the past 15 years, died 8 a.m. Sunday in a local hospital.
Funeral services will be held 3 p.m. Thursday in the chapel of
Harveson &
Cole Funeral Home,
Fort Worth, with burial in
Greenwood Cemetery,
Fort Worth. The body will be taken to
Fort Worth Wednesday by London-Burton Funeral Home.
Mrs. McNeely was the wife of the late Rev. F. P. McNeely, a pioneer
Baptist minister in
Texas. Born Sept. 12, 1861 in
Mississippi, Mrs. McNeely came to
Texas as a girl and lived for many years at Gatesville, where she was married in 1880. She was a member of the
Baptist Church and made her home in Brownwood with a daughter, Mrs. Frank E. Isett.
Survivors are three sons, Dr. Edwin
McNeely, head of the voice department of Southwestern
Baptist Theological
Seminary, Ft. Worth, James S. and Franklin P. McNeely, both of Broken
Arrow, Okla.; five daughters, Mrs. Isett, Mrs James
Peden of El
Paso, Mrs. Fred Bodurtha of
Prairie Grove Ark., Mrs. Charles
Schultz,
Boston, Mass., and Mrs. Craig White,
Washington, D. C.; 22 grandchildren, 18 great - grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.